Lu cracks me up ... when she is posing for a picture, this is her "pose" smile . . .

Can you see the family resemblance?

I had to laugh when I saw these pics, back-to-back in my film roll. So funny!! Anyway, the tables were fairly well loaded down!

My nephew, Ben, and Jason -- our fearless turkey carvers!!

Jason actually did a GREAT job carving the turkeys (yes, we cooked two ten-pounders -- one in my gas oven at the RV and one in the electric oven at the pavilion). And Ben de-stuffed the birds! They were quite the turkey-team. :)

Julia's husband was our fire-fender for the week. Seriously, a fire got lit in the pavilion fire place when they arrived Sunday afternoon and it was maintained day and night until they left on Friday!

Michael makes a great director, don't you think?!

I don't think we had to call people twice ... the more food that went out on the table, the closer the crowd got!

I tried (and tried) to get a photo that had *everyone* at the table but there was absolutely no way ... in fact, I'm not sure that there was a point when *everyone* was sitting at the table! I was able to sneak in a profile shot of Todd's dad!

Sawyer . . .

Mom? You forget about me over here?

Mom?!? You need me to come help?!??

MmmmmOMMMMMY!!

Food must have been good . . . smiles all around!

And my favorite capture of the day? The girls took the dishes over to the (warm) RV and put in a Christmas movie and washed dishes. The guys?

The guys hung a white sheet over the canvas and projected HALO on it for a little gaming action.

Yup, they were occupied for HOURS!! It was a wonderful, fun day, and I'll remember it fondly as one of my favorite Thanksgivings since we've moved here!

And, just so you can see I'm keeping my hand in the quilting game . . .

Just so you know....I came by and left a couple of comments yesterday which went whoof when I hit post...I was getting ready to be off for the day and never did get back by.It was a great day to have a meal in the great outdoors wasn't it....looks like everyone had a great time, too.Mama Bear